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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by KevinB52379 -Thanks for the update and happy to hear you got it solved. ZoomText sounds very invasive if it can cause the system to slow down. Would be fun to figure out what the problem is, but the software seems to be expensive and I don't even see demo option.
@Case - I mentioned before that I am legally blind, so Zoomtext is a vital piece of software for me to have in order to use the computer.
You are correct, Zoomtext is expensive. I purchase a Home license, which is a subscription based plan. So I buy 5 years at a time for $500. For me, it's wroth it.
You can download a trial version of Zoomtext, but the caveat is that it doesn't expire in a certain amount of days, but instead, it can only run 40 minutes at a time, and then the system must restart to reset the activation timer.
I am not quite sure why this is happening with Zoomtext. To be honest, I've had other issues with other things and Zoomtext, and I'm usually told I'm the only one who reports such issues, or that the program I'm having issues with (in this case Helix) is NOT officially supported by the Zoomtext software.
I do know that Zoomtext mirrors the screen and obviously enlarges it. So I believe there may be some type of mirroring driver installed so it interfaces with windows and the screen. I know for a fact there are services running in the background.
My guess to as to why exiting Zoomtext didn't work, is because it isn't completely unloading everything in the background, so services, etc are still running.
Anyway, if you're interested in trying Zoomtext, it can be downloaded here:
https://software.vfo.digital/ZoomText/2024/2024.2402.66.400/5082DF51-83F9-4DC5-BE8B-545B0CCC1345/ZT2024.2402.66.400-Offline-x64.exe